CATCH THAT SHIBE

tattoos

Remember this post? Yeah, I finally got it done! Not in the shoulder, where I figured on getting it in the first place. My tattooist at Black and Blue Tattoo advised me that it would look a little lost and lonely on my shoulder and recommended somewhere where it would stand out. I picked my left forearm (the symbolism for evil and wrongdoing appealed to me). Eventually I would like to write something – “Shassi: 1993-2010” (Assuming she makes it to the New Year) or “The Misanthropic Shiba” above and below “Shassi: 1993-2010”. Something like that. But for now, I’m very happy with Shassi’s paw print and looking forward to having more art done in the future.

I have always wanted a tattoo, but have suffered from the Will-I-still-like-this-50-years-from-now syndrome. However, Shassi’s brush with should-we-put-her-down has made me think that I wouldn’t mind something to remember one of the most significant dogs of my life with.

So, one day I took a non-toxic stamp pad and hied me over to the house, where I carefully pressed Shassi’s right paw several times on pieces of notepad paper. I then scanned the images and plugged them into Photoshop where, with my awesome digital imaging skillz, I smoothed, filled in and compensated for until I came up with the image you see on the left.

I got curious about Shiba inu tattoos, but I couldn’t find any pictures of people who have had them done or even designs for them! However, when I have recovered from my current impecuniousness, I will be happy to publish pictures of my homage to Shassi. I’ve already determined that it is going to be in an appropriate-to-bare-in-public area, but not which appropriate place it should be in. Shoulder? Arm?

I’m not so far gone that I’m planning to tattoo SHIBAINUS.CA on my forehead… I like Shibas, but not quite that much!

Oh hai, doggy

If you’re on the TMS Facebook, you’ll know that we’re all still here. Battered, bruised, tired as fuck, but we’re all here. TMS kind of takes a backseat to everything when there’s a health issue or a financial crisis or whatever. Fortunately, due to the auspices of fate and friends and connections, it turns out that we’re keeping going and the humans, at least, are holding on. Which is why…